Shopping with a five year old...

So today I had five million things to do in Bowling Green which included dropping forms to be filled out at Dr. Cavanah's office (thank you teenage boy GGC worker who insisted that I unload 2 half asleep children by myself and haul them in just to turn in a paper...I'm sure your 16 year old legs were too tired to walk the papers 10 foot across the lobby...)

Wait I got sidetracked...then I had to drop off some videos (I think they were actually on time) and then meet Travis at Hobby Lobby to pickup a frame (Yes I met him so he could corral the children in the van while I ran in, because the sight of Hobby Lobby turns my two little angels into whiny animals who sound like dying alley cats)

Actually things were going so smoothly I decided to venture to the mall with the munchkins. By the way, did you know that given then opportunity a five year old will chew the ear pieces off of two pairs of glasses simply because he was bored! It's a fact, and the look on the Lenscrafter man's face was priceless when I pulled out the aforementioned glasses and told him we needed two new sets of ear things. The man kindly asked, "Is this the first time he's worn glasses," Yes dude...what clued you in? He then proceeded to try and sell me a $150 pair of sports glasses for high impact sports (aka gym class) I kindly informed him that I didn't really think there would be much high impact sports going on in Kindergarten gym class, but thanks for asking...

And now the point of this post...I didn't realize I had a son going into high school...I thought he was going to Kindergarten. From the way he shops for school clothes you wouldn't know the difference. Anything I picked out was "uncool" and he repeatedly picked out the $40 jeans and the rocker t shirts, and to beat it all he loved the vintage 70's t shirts at old navy. We came home with a star wars one but I convinced him that a Rolling Stones one was not age appropriate. He also snaggled two pairs of camo pants, some more Old Navy T Shirts and two pairs of shoes...one of which his father nearly had a coronary over because they have skulls on them...(I tried to explain it went with the Old Navy rock and roll t shirts) but Travis insists that we will look like a juvenile delinquent...so I suppose he won't be wearing them to Sunday School any time soon. Anyway, if shopping with him was this challenging now I can't imagine when he's a teenager...I'm not even going to think about it.

He did however still want to ride the Carousel so I guess we're not quite ready to start shopping at Hollister...yet...